New Books: Looking into the Future of Racial/Ethnic Relations
First off, Happy New year to everyone. Hopefully 2012 will bring you and your loved ones — and humanity in general — a little more peace, prosperity, and harmony. With that theme in mind, the following...
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Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleNew Books & Recent News Articles on Immigration
As always, the start of the new semester has been quite busy and a little hectic. As a result and as my regular readers have probably noticed, I have not been able to write new posts as often as I...
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Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleLinks, Jobs, & Announcements #63
Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleThe Stigma of Immigrant Languages
Photo by Lulu Vision (Flickr/Creative Commons). As an undergraduate majoring in linguistics, I was fascinated with the concept of endangered languages. Colonization, genocide, globalization, and...
View ArticleUndocumented Asian Immigrants in the United States
“Undocumented Immigrants” is on Time’s shortlist for Person of the Year 2012. Many of the editors’ picks in the past few years have been abstract, collective entities–last year was the year of the...
View ArticleAcademic Research: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, & Asian Americans #10
As many colleges and universities start their spring semester this week and as part of Asian-Nation’s goal of disseminating academic research related to real-world issues and topics, the following is a...
View ArticleLinks, Jobs, & Announcements #71
Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleLinks, Jobs, & Announcements #72
Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleBilingualism, Signs, and Xenophobia
Strip mall sign in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Photo: Tyler Goss (Flickr/Creative Commons) Two contrasting articles about bilingualism came my way this morning. In the first one, Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleLinks, Jobs, & Announcements #73
Here are some more announcements, links, and job postings about academic-related jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities for those interested in racial/ethnic/diversity issues, with a particular...
View ArticleNew Books: Contemporary Immigration to the U.S.
I am teaching my “Sociology of Immigration” course again this semester and to reflect the importance of this issue within the public and political realms of U.S. society at the moment, below are some...
View ArticleNew Books: Asian Americans and Global Communities
Among Asians and Asian Americans, “community” can take many different forms, whether it refers to the historical and contemporary dynamics of enclaves or diasporic and imagined frameworks of identity....
View Article40th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon: Reflections from a Former Refugee
Today, April 30, 2015, is the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, the day when the North Vietnamese officially overthrew the South Vietnamese government and ended the Viet Nam War. As summarized in...
View ArticleInteresting Statistics for Immigrant Heritage Month
I must admit that I did not know that June is Immigrant Heritage Month. Up until now, I thought that although the U.S. recognizes all sorts of historical occasions with their own official month that we...
View ArticleDeportations Punish Children Most
The following is a post written by my colleague (and wife) Miliann Kang, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It was originally...
View ArticleNew Book: The Generation Gap in Asian American Families
In my ongoing series of interviews with Asian American academics that highlight new books and research that illuminate different aspects and details of the Asian American experience, I am very happy to...
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